Author: Andres-Papazian

HAUT KARABAGH
Le président Bako Sahakian visite les régions d’Askéran, Mardouni,
Hadrout et Mardakert

Le 2 juillet, Bako Sahakian le président de la République du Haut
Karabagh s’est rendu dans les régions d’Askéran, Marouni et Hadrout
afin de prendre connaissance sur place de l’avancement des projets
économiques et des travaux agricoles. Le président a également tenu à
la coordination entre les services du gouvernement et les agriculteurs
pour les récoltes. Le président Bako Sahakian a également visité le
nouvel hôpital de Mardakert en construction et du Palais des sports.
B. Sahakian était accompagné par une délégation emmenée par le Premier
ministre Ara Haroutiounian.

Krikor Amirzayan

samedi 9 juillet 2011,
Krikor [email protected]

From: A. Papazian

Trend Daily News (Azerbaijan)
July 7, 2011 Thursday 4:15 PM GMT +4

Kazan meeting shows political methods for solving Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict do not work

Azerbaijan, Baku, July 7 / Trend T. Hajiyev /

The Kazan meeting has once again demonstrated that the political
methods of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict do not work, Center
for Political Innovation and Technologies Director Mubariz Ahmadoglu
said at a press conference.

He added that the political resources of the conflict settlement have
been already exhausted. One can hope only for military resources.
Azerbaijan has every opportunities to solve problems by military
means.

“The military parade, held on June 26, once again proved it,” he added.

He said that it was planned to sign an updated document, called the
basic principles on the basis of Madrid Principles in Kazan.

“But it did not happen because of Armenia. It was clear that the Kazan
meeting was doomed to failure by Armenia. Even if Armenia signs the
document on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, then it can
refuse from its signature. We have already seen this while signing the
protocols on the normalization of relations between Turkey and
Armenia. After the documents were signed, Armenia handed over the
documents to the Constitutional Court for consideration. The court
decided to nullify all the issues available in the protocol that were
in favor of Turkey.

So, if Armenia even signs a document on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
settlement, it can then submit it to the Constitutional Court, which
will consider it illegal. Thus, Armenia will delay the time, he said.

He stressed that the Kazan meeting was one of the most important.
Until now, no meeting was provided with such information and political support.

Presidents Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, Dmitry Medvedev of Russia, and
Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia discussed in Kazan the basic principles of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement. The meeting, which was the
ninth in the last three years, ended without reaching an agreement on
the basic principles of settlement. The sides mentioned their progress
in a joint statement.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.

Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia, France, and the U.S. – are
currently holding peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council’s four
resolutions on the liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding
regions.

From: A. Papazian

news.az, Azerbaijan
July 8 2011

Disruption of Karabakh negotiations can have most negative consequences – expert
Fri 08 July 2011 06:54 GMT | 2:54 Local Time

‘Disruption of the five-year round of negotiations on peaceful
settlement of Karabakh conflict can cause the most negative
consequences’.
The remarks came from MP, political expert Rasim Musabayov while
commenting on Kazan meeting of Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian
presidents in Kazan in June and upcoming visit of Russian Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov to the region.

‘In principle it is possible to anticipate what was expected from
Kazan. In Kazan it was failure to make the parties to sign the
document, but everybody understands that if this five-year negotiation
round not leads to any outcome, the consequences will be very
negative,’ the MP said.

‘That is, it will be difficult to start a new round of negotiations
after the failure, which is associated with five-year negotiations,
which means that sharp, negative military scenarios will become more
probable,’ he noted.

‘Realizing that, in general, there is only the last step left to make,
Russia, supported by Americans and Europeans, will seek some kind of
signing and getting the conflicting parties to adopt the Madrid
principles,’ Musabayov added.

1news.az

From: A. Papazian

news.am, Armenia
July 8 2011

Progress on Karabakh possible if Baku withdraws 10 amendments – Armenian FM

July 08, 2011 | 11:44

YEREVAN.- Armenia is grateful to Russian President Dmitry Mevedev for
his efforts aimed at helping the sides to agree on basic principles of
Karabakh conflict settlement, said Armenian Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandian.

We came to Kazan in a positive mood, he said during a joint press
conference with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.

`If Azerbaijan withdraws its amendments, ten amendments they put
forward in Kazan, progress will be possible,’ he said commenting on
future prospects for the settlement of Karabakh conflict.

From: A. Papazian

FANNY ARDANT IS GUEST AT GOLDEN APRICOT

AZG DAILY
09-07-2011

At the last press-conference before the opening of the Golden Apricot
Film Festival, the Director of the Festival Harutyun Khachatryan
announced the surprising news: “The last gift, that we would like
to present you before the start of the Festival, is the visit of
my beloved and, I am sure, your beloved, outstanding actress Fanny
Ardant. We are inviting you to meet with her before the opening
ceremony of the festival on July 10 at 1 p.m. in the Red Hall of
Moscow Cinema”.

It was also mentioned, that the two films directed by Fanny Ardant,
“Cendres et sang” and “Chimères absentes”, will be shown on July 11
in Moscow Cinema.

Harutyun Khachatryan emphasized particularly the importance of the
program “Cinema of CIS countries – 20 years independent”. Due to the
support of the CIS Humanitarian Foundation films of almost all the
countries of the Commonwealth, including Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Kirgizstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine will
be shown in the frames of this program.

“Thanks to the support of the CIS Humanitarian Cooperation Foundation
a number of directors were invited and there will be shown 11 films.

The cooperation of the Festival with CIS Humanitarian Foundation
has created the opportunity to invite Russian cinema critics and
journalists, who are covering the work of the festival” – Harutyun
Khachatryan added.

Speaking about the same program, the artistic director of the festival
Susanna Harutyunyan mentioned, that films from CIS countries could
not have been included into the program of the festival before because
of financial problems.

“The flight tickets are very expensive and only due to the support
of the CIS Humanitarian Cooperation Foundation it became possible
to invite the directors and to show these films in Yerevan,” – said
Susanna Harutyunyan. She added as well, that in the frames of the
festival the representatives of CIS countries will participate in a
round-table meeting, GAIFF official website reports.

The 8th Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival will be
held from 10-17th July due to its loyal partners: the general sponsor
VivaCell – MTS and the support of the Ministry of Culture of Republic
of Armenia.

From: A. Papazian

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“GIVING PRIORITY TO UNITY OF THE CHURCH IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE CHURCHES IN THE
MIDDLE EAST”
Stated His Holiness Aram I

On Thursday 7 July 2011, His Holiness Aram I met in his summer residence in
Bikfaya with Maronite Archbishop of Beirut Boulos Matar and Rev. Dr. Habib
Badr, National Evangelical Church of Lebanon. Archbishop Nareg Alemezian,
the Ecumenical Officer of the Catholicosate of Cilicia, who had just
returned from Cairo, also attended the meeting. The two co- Presidents of
the Middle East Council of Churches discussed the message of the meeting of
the Standing Committee of the Heads of Oriental Orthodox Churches, and the
position of the Catholic and Protestant family of Churches regarding the
forthcoming Assembly of the Middle East Council of Church.

After listening to the comments of his co-Presidents, His Holiness Aram I
said, “Unity of the Church is essential priority for us in the Region. It
should, therefore, take precedence over other plans including Assemblies and
institutions. We should arrive at a common understanding irrespective of our
differences and work together for the unity of the church.”

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the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the Ecumenical
activities of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of
the Catholicosate, The Cilician
Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is located in
Antelias, Lebanon.

From: A. Papazian

Archaeology: Black Sea’s ancient coast found – report

Thu, Jul 07 2011
The Sofia Echo

Bulgarian scientists have found the ancient shores of the Black Sea,
currently deep beneath the waves, which they claim were the original
shores about 7500 years ago, when the Black Sea at the time was just a
fresh water lake, the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) reported on
July 7 2011.

The team, led by Professor Petko Dimitrov of the Institute of Oceanology
in Varna, which is part of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS),
returned from an expedition aboard the research vessel Akademik, saying
that they have found the ancient coastline close to the Cape of Emine.
Archaeological evidence suggest that this particular spot was part of
the ancient coastline, the BNT said.

The common theory of the creation of the Black Sea says that there was a
massive deluge through the straits of Bosporus (modern Istanbul), where
waters from the Mediterranean flooded into the lake. Once the
Mediterranean Sea breached the Bosporus Strait, it irreversibly changed
the history of the people in the area, as well as the flora and fauna.

In 1997, William Ryan and Walter Pitman published evidence that a
massive flooding of the Black Sea occurred about 5600 BCE through the
Bosporus. According to the theory, glacial melt-water had turned the
Black and Caspian Seas into vast freshwater lakes draining into the
Aegean Sea before that event. As glaciers retreated, some of the rivers
emptying into the Black Sea declined in volume and changed course to
drain into the North Sea.

The Black Sea is the world’s largest meromictic basin where the
deep waters do not mix with the upper layers of water that receive
oxygen from the atmosphere, the report said. Subsequently, more than 90
per cent of the deeper Black Sea volume is anoxic water.

Part of the Bulgarian expedition was also Professor William Ryan, a
geologist at Columbia University. “As a true scientist, until the
results are finalised, I will reserve doubts about the theory of
Professor Petko Dimitrov, that this part of the coastline was indeed
affected by the flood and that this was the ancient shoreline,” he said,
cited by the BNT.

“I am still doubtful whether there is a small gap in his theory. All my
observations support the theory, but we are still looking for any
evidence which may disprove it,” he said.

Scientists believe that if this theory proves true, they will be
presented with a myriad of other questions, such as who lived there, the
fate of the people in the area and how the region was affected in the

From: A. Papazian

Trend Daily News (Azerbaijan)
July 9, 2011 Saturday 11:29 AM GMT +4

PM: Turkey believes in establishment of stability in Caucasus

Azerbaijan, Baku, July 9 / Trend/

Turkey believes stability will be established in the Caucasus and the
country’s authorities will facilitate this, Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying by the STAR newspaper.

Erdogan said Turkey will contribute to liberation of the occupied
Azerbaijani lands.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.

Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia, France, and the U.S. – are
currently holding the peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council’s four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.

From: A. Papazian

news.am, Armenia
July 10 2011

Ashkhabad will host Armenian-Turkmen intergovernmental commission on
economic cooperation

July 09, 2011 | 18:31

ASHKHABAD. – Armenian Minister of Energy and Natural Recourses Armen
Movsisyan and Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
discussed opportunities of long-term partnership development in trade,
economic, energy and humanitarian areas.

Armenian delegation arrived in Turkmenistan for participating in
Armenian-Turkmen intergovernmental conference on economic cooperation.

Annual goods turnover between Armenia and Turkmenistan is $20 million,
out of which $14 million share Armenian imports. Armenia mainly
exports cognac, agricultural products, cigarette, precious and
semiprecious stones and equipments. Imports are mainly textile, oil,
oil products, clothing and cotton.

From: A. Papazian

Armenian painter participates in Fine Art exhibition in Ukraine

July 10, 2011 – 16:31 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – On July 8, All Ukrainian exhibition of Fine Art of
the Ukrainian ethnos called ‘Vivat, Ukraine!’ opened in the National
Museum of Literature of Ukraine.

It is noteworthy that alongside with the works of famous painters,
such as G.Ruff, G.Gold, I.Vorkhov, R.Bagautdinov etc., young artists
such as Svetlana Gavrilenko, Olga Teuta, Suleyman Erejepov, Astghik
Manukyan and others demonstrate their art as well.

The works of sculptors V.Medvedev, N.Medvedev and S.Tigranyan
supplement the exposition.

The exhibition aims at popularization of the Ukrainian ethnos,
acknowledgement of cultural diversity in the country, enhancement of
understanding and improvement of situation for coexistence of people
belonging to different cultures being an integral part of the
Ukrainian state value. The exhibition will last till July 18,
according to Analitika.at.ua.

According to independent media outlets, there are over 450 thousand
Armenians in the Ukraine; Armenian Diaspora bore such outstanding
people as Ivan (Hovhannes) Ayvaovsky and Sergey Parajanov who praised
the Ukrainian land alongside with Taras Shevchenko.

Outstanding Armenian contemporaries are film director Roman Balayan,
solo singer of the Ukrainian National Opera Susanna Chakhoyan, painter
Boris Yeghiazaryan and others.

From: A. Papazian